Welcome to The Assets Moment Live Blog, the official home for updates about the 2010 Assets Learning Conference. This journal will refresh automatically with updates during and after this Plenary Session. If you have questions, contact Sean Luechtefeld at sluechtefeld@cfed.org or 850.559.4055. If you want to join the conversation, simply use the comments section below to respond to any of the posts during the session.
Heading Out
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 10:08 AM
Check back later when we’ll be live blogging the last plenary of the Conference, the Entrepreneurship Moment!
Depth
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 10:07 AM
This conversation is really in-depth. It seems like so often panel discussions are somewhat scripted and address issues with a certain level of vagueness. These folks jumped right in!
Creating Synergies
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:58 AM
How do we look across sectors? Bring together policymakers, researchers, practitioners? It seems like this is another theme or trend from this morning’s plenary session. Creating synergies will help us maximize our ROI. Example: leveraging grants from community foundations to help fund research that can improve the ability of those on the ground to connect their clients with the services they need. THAT is scale. How do we achieve it?
HHS
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:52 AM
Hansell has a ton of energy! It sounds like the programs ACF @ HHS is promoting are incredible.
Partnering
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:47 AM
Hansell: It’s all about partnership. This reminds me of a quote that my colleague, Genevieve Melford (Senior Program Manager for Applied Research @ CFED), shared with me from Innovator-in-Residence Mindy Hernandez. She says that partnership is an advanced technical skill. I think Mindy is absolutely right – we often don’t think of it that way, but there is a real need to develop the skill and optimize our opportunities for working together through strong partnerships.
Coming Up
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:42 AM
Upcoming blog-ness: Throughout the day, we’ll be adding more guest posts to The Assets Moment blog. We’ll also be live blogging the closing plenary. If you’re interested in contributing or sharing your Conference feedback publicly, just let me know! DM me on Twitter, leave a comment here or sent me an email at the address at the top of this page!
How Impressive are these People?
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:37 AM
Listening to these speakers, I often wonder how long it takes for them to become so knowledgeable about these issues and how they’re able to speak so fluently. Even as someone who spends a great deal of time wordsmithing, these folks give great off-the-cuff remarks and have so much insight to share. We’re lucky to get to hear from them this morning and all week!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:32 AM
“It’s going to take every school and every strategy you can think of.” – E. Meeks on scaling integrated asset building.
Desert Dessert
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:27 AM
Desert Dessert: You know it’s too early in the AM when I start questioning whether I spelled ‘desert’ correctly. Was my last post about arid areas that lack food, or was it about ice cream sundaes for low-income Americans. Luckily Google tells me I got it right the first time!
Food Deserts
Posted on 09/24/2010 @ 09:25 AM
M. Coven: Food desert initiatives in NY, NJ, PA and CA - these came from program innovations and really grew out of concerns over obesity and health care, as well as concerns for low- and moderate-income Americans. Once these programs got off the ground, the key was asking for help. The lesson: ask and you shall receive.
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